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Europe’s dependency on China?
The 22nd EU-China Summit held virtually this week, was the first for the new EU Commission. The meeting takes place against ever-heightening tensions between Europe and China, with extremely low...
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Episode 20: Germany and Global Economic Governance in an age of chaos with Claudia Schmucker
Fredrik Erixon talks to Dr Claudia Schmucker, the head of the Globalization and the World Economy programme at the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), about the WTO, G7, G20 - and Germany’s...
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‘Appetite for friction’ – Trump policy towards China
According to Frank Lavin, former US Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, ‘trade negotiations should focus on managing what’s good rather than managing what’s bad'. However, US...
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Episode 7: Europe in a fractured world with Roland Freudenstein
Fredrik Erixon talks to Roland Freudenstein, the Policy Director of the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies. They discuss this year's European elections, if it really is a title fight...
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Episode 4: What is Trump’s trade strategy for China and Europe? With Frank Lavin
Fredrik Erixon talks to Frank Lavin, the founder and CEO of Export Now, who has served as U.S. Ambassador to Singapore and undersecretary of Commerce for International Trade. They discuss U.S. trade...
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Episode 3: What to expect from the future US trade policy? With Elena Bryan
Fredrik Erixon talks to Elena Bryan, a Senior Fellow at ECIPE and a Managing Director at Pilot Roc Global Strategies a trade and regulatory consultancy in the United States. The discussion covers the...
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China’s Growing Soft Power: Should Europe Protect its Cultural Industries?
One of the notable aspects of China’s foreign policy in recent years has been the increasing focus on developing soft power. Beijing has arguably invested more in this area than any other country...
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What’s the Economic Impact of Brexit and the US Withdrawal from TPP?
Dr Kenichi Kawasaki, Professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) in Tokyo and a leading expert on quantitative modelling of trade liberalisation, revisited ECIPE on March...
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Strategic Challenge or Economic Benefit? Interpreting China’s FDI Flows
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and national security are often adversarial to one another. This is particularly the case with outward FDI from China targeting strategic infrastructure in various...
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Can Europe Shape the Peaceful Rise of China? Working through the AIIB
The old adage was that the future of Asia would be Europe’s past, yet Europe’s role in the region’s future has often been given little consideration. The rise of China and its implications for...